Railway Reaches Portchester

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The London and South Western Railway opened a station at Portchester in 1848 as part of the line connecting Fareham with Portsmouth. The arrival of the railway transformed the village, making it accessible to commuters and day-trippers for the first time. The station, on the line now operated by South Western Railway, still serves the village today. The railway encouraged gradual residential development through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.